Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Quotes

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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